GMA 3150 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated1531
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data0.05
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Generation 4.0 (2006−2007)
GPU code nameM82Pineview
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date25 July 2008 (16 years ago)9 May 2007 (17 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4016
Core clock speed450 MHz400 MHz
Number of transistors181 million123 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm45 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12 Watt13 Watt
Texture fill rate1.8000.8
Floating-point processing power0.036 TFLOPS0.0128 TFLOPS
ROPs41
TMUs42

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceMXM-IIPCI

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR2System Shared
Maximum RAM amount256 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed400 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.19.0c
Shader Model4.13.0
OpenGL3.32.0
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 July 2008 9 May 2007
Chip lithography 55 nm 45 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 13 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 3430 has an age advantage of 1 year, and 8.3% lower power consumption.

GMA 3150, on the other hand, has a 22.2% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 3430 and GMA 3150. We've got no test results to judge.


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